Featuring the New Fellows Inducted at the autumn, 2004 meeting

Information provided below is from either the nomination for fellow status or is from the revision to the nomination that was read at the annual meeting.

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Dr. Benoît G. Bardy (International Fellow)

Sponsor: Michael Wade

Benoît G. Bardy is Professor of Human Movement Science and Director of the Research Center in Sport Sciences at the University of Paris XI. He completed his Ph.D. in movement science at the University of the Mediterranean in 1991. Professor Bardy's research investigates problems of coordination and control, especially how the skeletal system is coordinated to promote functional action. A second line of research seeks identification of the role of movement-based information in the control of action. His research relates to real world activities, particularly those encountered in sport.

Professor Bardy's publications are numerous and of very high quality. His scholarship represents a sustained and programmatic research effort since 1992. He publishes regularly in major European and North American journals and has made many national and international presentations of his work. Professor Bardy was George Lurcy Foundation Fellow and a NATO Fellow at Brown University in 1994, and is currently President of the French Society for Sport and Movement Sciences and editor for the French journal Science & Motricité.

Bardy's research reputation in French and European universities in sport and movement science has made a significant contribution in promoting the study of movement science. He has organized important research conferences in Europe, including the eighth International Conference on Perception and Action held in Marseilles in 1995. Professor Bardy is a leader in his field and an internationally recognized scholar. Professor Benoît Bardy will be an outstanding addition to the Academy, and will add to its international prestige and reputation.

Dr. Bradley D. Hatfield (Fellow #452)

Sponsors: Jane E. Clark, Catherine D. Ennis, James Hagberg, B. Don Franks

Professor Bradley Hatfield is an internationally recognized scholar in exercise and sport psychology who has contributed significantly to Kinesiology in his scholarship, teaching, and professional service. Professor Hatfield's scholarship has focused on the relationship between physical activity and mental health as well as the psychological factors affecting the quality of human motor performance.

His early work in the 1980s investigating the psychophysiological aspects of skilled performance was groundbreaking for the field. In 1983, he and his advisor, Dr. Dan Landers, wrote a paper on "Psychophysiology - a new direction for sport psychology". Today, the impact of this "new direction" is very clear and for Dr. Hatfield, it has shaped his work over the last 20 years as he has investigated relationship between cerebral cortical dynamics and the quality of motor performance. He has also combined his interests in performance and exercise psychology in the area of physical activity in the elderly to demonstrate how physical activity plays a role in preserving and enhancing mental performance.

Dr. Hatfield is an excellent teacher and mentor. He has advised 24 masters and 14 doctoral students. Several of his doctoral students have won awards from our scientific organizations and one was awarded an NIH predoctoral fellowship. Professor Hatfield also has distinguished himself with in our Department, College, and field as a "good citizen." Nationally, Dr. Hatfield has served as president of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine. In Dr. Hatfield, the Academy will find a colleague who truly believes in mens sana in corpore sano.

Dr. James E. Graves (Fellow #451)

Sponsors: Philip Sparling & Priscilla Clarkson

For over 20 years, Jay Graves has immersed himself in the study of human physiology especially as it applies to the influence of exercise on health. After earning his Ph.D. in Exercise Science at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, he worked as a junior scientist with the esteemed Michael L. Pollock (Academy Fellow #273). Together they established the Center for Exercise Science at the University of Florida. He then went to Syracuse University where he developed the Musculoskeletal Research Laboratory and served as Chair of the Department of Exercise Science and then Associate Dean for Graduate Studies. In 2003, he became Dean of the College of Health at the University of Utah where he oversees 7 departments: all of which have kinesiology components.

Dr Graves is one of America's top researchers in the assessment, rehabilitation, and physiology of spinal function. He has published more than 80 research articles in the leading journals. In 1988 he coauthored the book Lumbar Spine and in 2001 co-edited Resistance Training for Health & Disease. The latter is the first book to systematically present the scientific evidence documenting the benefits of resistance training to the prevention and rehabilitation of prevalent chronic diseases. He has been an invited speaker to Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia as well as Canada and Mexico. In 1999, Dr. Graves was selected as the Syracuse University Scholar Teacher of the Year. This prestigious award recognizes exceptional teaching, significant contributions to scholarship, and commitment to high standards of professional and personal life.

Dr. Graves has distinguished himself in scholarship, teaching, and administration - a rare triplet. It is a pleasure to honor Dr. Graves for his accomplishments and for being a dedicated leader who effectively communicates the central messages of our field across traditional disciplinary lines.

Dr. Sigmund Loland (International Fellow)

Sponsors: Glyn Roberts

Dr. Dr Sigmund Loland is professor of philosophy at the Norwegian University of Sport Science, and is one of the leading international scholars in the area. Dr. Loland has published original research on sport ethics, the epistemology of movement, the theory of sport science, sport and ecology, and the history of ideas of sport. He has published in a number of refereed Scandinavian, English, American, and German journals, and in Scandinavian and English books. Among his monographs is Fair Play in Sport, published by Routledge in 2002. Dr. Loland has over 40 invitations as a keynote speaker at national and international research meetings.

Dr. Loland has been a leader at his institution and in the Nordic countries. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the European College of Sport Science, and the Past-President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport. Dr. Loland has been invited as a visiting scholar in the Department of Philosophy, Stanford University (1992-93), and he has worked as a supervising professor at post-graduate seminars organized by the International Olympic Academy. Based on his research on the ethics of performance enhancing technologies in sport, he has been appointed one out of four members on the newly established WADA Ethical Issues Review Panel.

Dr. Sigmund Loland is a leader in his field, and he has been instrumental in furthering the scholarship and visibility of philosophy of sport internationally. He has demonstrated scholarly and professional leadership in Europe and is regarded as one of the scholarly assets of the Norwegian University of Sport Science.

Dr. Gershon Tenenbaum (Fellow #453)

Sponsors: Deborah Feltz, Bonnie Berger and Robert Singer

Dr. Gershon Tenenbaum is a Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems at Florida State University. Dr. Tenenbaum has significantly influenced the field of sport psychology since culminating his doctoral work in measurement and statistics from the University of Chicago in 1982. Dr. Tenenbaum's scientific work has focused on three main areas: (a) cognition and information processing, (b) decision-making and performance expertise, and (c) psychometrics. More recently, his work has focused on shared mental models in sports. He has authored books on The Practice of Sport Psychology, Brain and Body in Sport Psychology, and Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Sport and Exercise Sciences. In addition, Dr. Tenenbaum has published 5 more books, in Hebrew, plus more than 150 refereed journal articles and 40 book chapters.

After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Tenenbaum served as Director of the Center for Sport Medicine and Research, Wingate Institute, Israel until 1994, when he moved to Australia to take a position as professor of sport and exercise psychology at the University of Southern Queensland. In 2000, he moved to the United States to accept his current position at Florida State University. He has served as President of the International Society of Sport Psychology and President of the Israeli Society for Sport Psychology and Sociology. He has organized several professional conferences and led a number of scientific committees for international congresses during his career. Dr. Tenenbaum is a Certified Consultant for the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology, and is listed in the United States Olympic Committee Sport Psychology Registry.

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